Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Turning to our witness, thank you very much for being here, Colonel. I do appreciate it sincerely.
I hear you on duty to accommodate. I think that bears a little bit more examination on how it's being applied because things do change when we leave, too, and I think we need to do some due diligence to find out. Because the military isn't always the first to tell you that it's changed something, I think it bears some looking into.
I want to talk about families right now. You said at the beginning of your comments that families are the last to know, or the last involved, in some cases. In some of my experiences where I've been personally involved in this, I've made sure that families were part and parcel first and right there every step of the way.
Can you describe why you think families tend to fall to the bottom of this list, in your view?